Michael Turner: Tintin translator and publisher

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Michael Turner was chief executive of Associated Book Publishers (ABP), the company that owned the Methuen and Sweet & Maxwell imprints among others. Turner also helped to translate the cartoon adventures of Tintin, the Belgian cub reporter, written and drawn in the original by Herg?.

Turner undertook the translation of tales including The Secret of the Unicorn, Destination Moon and The Castiafiore Emerald, in collaboration with Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper. Lonsdale-Cooper did the initial draftings which Turner amended. The two then adjusted the copy together to ensure that the narrative, jokes and wordplays were appropriately anglicised.